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Gail Mason is Professor of Criminology at the University of Sydney Law School. Gail’s research centres on crime, social justice and exclusion, particularly: racist and homophobic violence; hate crime law and punishment; and the legal construction of hatred. She is co-ordinator of the Australian Hate Crime Network and Chief Investigator on the ARC funded Hate Crime Law and Justice Project which is undertaking an international comparison of hate crime laws. She is also involved in funded research exploring cyber-racism, the policing of prejudice motivated crime and resilience amongst former-refugee communities in Australia. She was Director of the Sydney Institute of Criminology from 2008-2012.

Gail has conducted research at/for the Victorian Department of Justice, NSW Anti-Discrimination Board, the Australian Human Rights Commission, the London Metropolitan Police Service, the Scottish Equality and Human Rights Commission and the NSW Attorney-General’s Department. She is Executive Editor of Current Issues in Criminal Justice, Associate Editor of the Australian and New Zealand Journal of Criminology and Series Editor for the Sydney Institute of Criminology Monograph Series. Gail is currently the NSW representative on the Australian and New Zealand Society of Criminology Management Committee and sits on the Corrective Services NSW Ethics Committee.

In 2008 Gail was awarded the Allen Bartholomew Award for the best article published in the Australian and New Zealand Journal of Criminology. In 2009 she delivered the distinguished JV Barry Memorial Lecture in Criminology at the University of Melbourne. Gail has previously worked in Gender Studies at the University of Sydney, in Criminology at Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand and at the Australian Institute of Criminology.

Mason, G. (2011). Denying the Obvious: Racist Violence and Indian Students in Australia. First International Conference of the South Asian Society for Criminology and Victimology (SASCV), Tirunelveli, India: South Asian Society for Criminology and Victimology (SASCV).

Schwartzkoff, J., Wilczynski, A., Ross, S., Smith, J., Mason, G., Thomas, D., Nicholson, B. (2003). 'You Shouldn’t Have to Hide to be Safe’: A Report on Homophobic Hostilities and Violence against Gay Men and Lesbians in New South Wales.

Mason, G. (2003). An Exploratory Study of Allegations of Racial and Homophobic Harassment Recorded by the Metropolitan Police Service, January-June 2001.

Mason, G., Chapman, A. (2003). Defining Sexual Harassment: A History of the Commonwealth Legislation and its Critiques.

Mason, G. (2011). Denying the Obvious: Racist Violence and Indian Students in Australia. First International Conference of the South Asian Society for Criminology and Victimology (SASCV), Tirunelveli, India: South Asian Society for Criminology and Victimology (SASCV).

Schwartzkoff, J., Wilczynski, A., Ross, S., Smith, J., Mason, G., Thomas, D., Nicholson, B. (2003). 'You Shouldn’t Have to Hide to be Safe’: A Report on Homophobic Hostilities and Violence against Gay Men and Lesbians in New South Wales.

Mason, G. (2003). An Exploratory Study of Allegations of Racial and Homophobic Harassment Recorded by the Metropolitan Police Service, January-June 2001.

Mason, G., Chapman, A. (2003). Defining Sexual Harassment: A History of the Commonwealth Legislation and its Critiques. Federal Law Review, 31(1), 195-224.

Mason, G., Chapman, A. (2003). Defining Sexual Harassment: A History of the Commonwealth Legislation and its Critiques.